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Digital storytelling, essential in entertainment, education, and marketing, faces challenges in production scalability and flexibility. The StoryAgent framework, introduced in this paper, utilizes Large Language Models and generative tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Samuel S. Sohn , Danrui Li , Sen Zhang , Che-Jui Chang , Mubbasir Kapadia

Story Visualization aims to generate images aligned with story prompts, reflecting the coherence of storybooks through visual consistency among characters and scenes.Whereas current approaches exclusively concentrate on characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Sitong Su , Litao Guo , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tanzila Rahman , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Shweta Mahajan , Leonid Sigal

We present Story2Board, a training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 David Dinkevich , Matan Levy , Omri Avrahami , Dvir Samuel , Dani Lischinski

Generating long-form storytelling videos with consistent visual narratives remains a significant challenge in video synthesis. We present a novel framework, dataset, and a model that address three critical limitations: background…

Storytelling in real-world videos often unfolds through multiple shots -- discontinuous yet semantically connected clips that together convey a coherent narrative. However, existing multi-shot video generation (MSV) methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhaochong An , Menglin Jia , Haonan Qiu , Zijian Zhou , Xiaoke Huang , Zhiheng Liu , Weiming Ren , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Ding Liu , Sen He , Chenyang Zhang , Tao Xiang , Fanny Yang , Serge Belongie , Tian Xie

Visual storytelling requires generating multi-shot videos with cinematic quality and long-range consistency. Inspired by human memory, we propose StoryMem, a paradigm that reformulates long-form video storytelling as iterative shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiwen Zhang , Liming Jiang , Angtian Wang , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Tiancheng Zhi , Qing Yan , Hao Kang , Xin Lu , Xingang Pan

We introduce Aether Weaver, a novel, integrated framework for multimodal narrative co-generation that overcomes limitations of sequential text-to-visual pipelines. Our system concurrently synthesizes textual narratives, dynamic scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Saeed Ghorbani

Human writers often begin their stories with an overarching mental scene, where they envision the interactions between characters and their environment. Inspired by this creative process, we propose a novel approach to long-form story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Chen , Rong Pan , Haoran Li

The core challenge for streaming video generation is maintaining the content consistency in long context, which poses high requirement for the memory design. Most existing solutions maintain the memory by compressing historical frames with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Shuai Yang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

Stories are central to human culture, serving to share ideas, preserve traditions, and foster connections. Automatic story generation, a key advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), offers new possibilities for creating personalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiaming Li , Yukun Chen , Ziqiang Liu , Minghuan Tan , Lei Zhang , Yunshui Li , Run Luo , Longze Chen , Jing Luo , Ahmadreza Argha , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Wei Zhou , Min Yang

Generating long videos that can show complex stories, like movie scenes from scripts, has great promise and offers much more than short clips. However, current methods that use autoregression with diffusion models often struggle because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Guangcong Zheng , Jianlong Yuan , Bo Wang , Haoyang Huang , Guoqing Ma , Nan Duan

Multi-shot video generation is crucial for long narrative storytelling, yet current bidirectional architectures suffer from limited interactivity and high latency. We propose ShotStream, a novel causal multi-shot architecture that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Junhao Zhuang , Yutian Chen , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Tianfan Xue

Automated movie creation requires coordinating multiple characters, modalities, and narrative elements across extended sequences -- a challenge that existing end-to-end approaches struggle to address effectively. We present…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyidan Xie , Zhentao Huang , Mingjie Wang , Xin Huang , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong , Zili Yi

We propose a simple and effective modeling framework for controlled generation of multiple, diverse outputs. We focus on the setting of generating the next sentence of a story given its context. As controllable dimensions, we consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Lifu Tu , Xiaoan Ding , Dong Yu , Kevin Gimpel

The narrative quality of a video fundamentally determines its perceptual value. Although existing video generation methods can produce visually appealing content, they predominantly rely on sparse conditioning signals such as text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhida Zhang , Jie Ma , Zhan Peng , Haoxue Wu , Yang Han , Jun Liang , Jie Cao , Jing Li

Digital characters are central to modern media, yet generating character videos with long-duration, consistent multi-view appearance and expressive identity remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide insufficient context to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhang Yang , Fan Zhang , Huaijin Pi , Shuai Guo , Guowei Xu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Guibao Shen , Quande Liu , Jialin Gao , Lihao Liu , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Recent advancements in video generation models, like Stable Video Diffusion, show promising results, but primarily focus on short, single-scene videos. These models struggle with generating long videos that involve multiple scenes, coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijia Wu , Mingyu Liu , Zeyu Zhu , Xi Xia , Haoen Feng , Wen Wang , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Chunhua Shen , Mike Zheng Shou

In this work, we propose a framework that creates a lively virtual dynamic scene with contextual motions of multiple humans. Generating multi-human contextual motion requires holistic reasoning over dynamic relationships among human-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Donggeun Lim , Jinseok Bae , Inwoo Hwang , Seungmin Lee , Hwanhee Lee , Young Min Kim